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278 Canal Street My dear Mr. Baker: Your letter came just after I had posted mine, - so that I must acknowledge the unexpected pleasure, and the hilarity caused by your Mark-Twainish critique upon the delights of exotic travel. Apropos of the fleas and the dirt, I had just been reading in a curious French book that pilgims to Mecca are allowed to take fleas tenderly between their finger and thumb and lay them upon the sand, because fleas can live in sand; but the good Moslem must not annoy the Other insects, because they would die if removed from the human person. Still, if they bother him beyond endurance, he is allowed to drive them away, - on the condition of distributing alms to the pilgrims.... Let us go to Mecca! I am very glad to hear you are stronger. And I should like to be with you

278 Canal Street My dear Mr. Baker: Your letter came just after I had posted mine, - so that I must acknowledge the unexpected pleasure, and the hilarity caused by your Mark-Twainish critique upon the delights of exotic travel. Apropos of the fleas and the dirt, I had just been reading in a curious French book that pilgims to Mecca are allowed to take fleas tenderly between their finger and thumb and lay them upon the sand, because fleas can live in sand; but the good Moslem must not annoy the Other insects, because they would die if removed from the human person. Still, if they bother him beyond endurance, he is allowed to drive them away, - on the condition of distributing alms to the pilgrims.... Let us go to Mecca! I am very glad to hear you are stronger. And I should like to be with you